Comments about ‘Nobody saw economic crisis coming, Cheney says in defense of president’

At least we won't have to hear any more excuses about why Bush didn't do anything about our economic disaster. He and the Bush's have been sleep walking in a muted denial for the last 16 years. Almost every major country has warned the Bush administration about an economic crisis looming and they just ignored it. Even a commoner (citizen) could see it coming but we are too stupid to see the big picture. What this economic crisis has proven is that this country can't allow corporate america to run our government and be in charge of laws and legislation. Our constitution is written in a way that keeps business and corporation as well as religious sects from taking control of the country. Yet it allows free enterprise to work. Subversive laws and regulations have made it possible for this kind of economic downfall that the writers of the constitution envisioned as dangerous to freedoms, rights, individuals, and the strength of the country. We need radical change but not with the Obama plan, it creates socialism and dependence on government, another forseeable disaster for the future of the country.

I watched the interview with Dick. He is slicker than an oil spill. You ask him about X and he answers about XY. YOu ask him about Z and he talks about ZZZ. He is one slick fella.

Some people believe he is the devil incarnate. I do not. But I do believe that he buys cigarettes for the devil. That man is evil.

Actually my company saw a deep recession coming and said so in our earnings report 18 months ago.

It's a sad commentary on the state of American politics that my boss is smarter than the President (and the President-elect, I might add).

I have to agree with Being in Denial above. I don't know of anyone who could see the prices of housing skyrocketing and not wonder when it would all end. This housing situation was so eerily like the stock market fiasco of 1929, it was unnerving. The tragedy is the wealthy bank executives say "Oh well..." and wander off to their country clubs. They don't lose their jobs, their homes, their pensions or the shirts off their backs. And they're the ones getting the bailouts. That isn't Socialism. And it's not Laissez Faire, either. It is entirely possible we will get to experience what our parents and grandparents lived through- a major Depression. (But, I hope not!)

Why was this guy in the White House? I saw this coming eight years ago. It was cheap money from low interest that kept a economy from crashing.

someone in political office say they did not see this coming? Any citizen, with common sense, could see this coming! Even a fool could see that living our financial lifestyle would lead to doom and gloom. How could it not?

I actually like Cheney But I would never go hunting with him! lol

Let's see...largest trade deficit in history because we don't make anything anymore, largest national debt largely owned by foreigners, lack of a reasonalbe energy policy that resulted in greater dependence on imported fossil fuels, Americans living beyond their means through personal debt, little regulation on the banking industry who allowed people to buy more house than they could afford, little regulation requiring the US auto industry to design and build cars that are relevant in the modern world, increased spending to cover the cost of an ill-advised war in Iraq, tax cuts at same time spending increased....I'm no Nobel Prize winning economist but even I could have figured out this house of cards was going to fall.

Our leaders are either liars or incompetent there is no other choice